Re: textarea curiousity

strawberry wrote:
Sheldon Glickler wrote:
I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.

When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and
recall it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks
like a large tab spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it
comes back the same way. If I delete the leading stuff and save it
again, it still comes back exactly the same.

This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some
leading characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to
display starting at the left edge?

Shelly

Not sure. I've seen this problem before though - and on those
occasions
the culprit has been blank space or carriage returns in the html. Have
a look at the source code and see if there are any obvious spaces that
might produce this error.

Yup, when you try to format your HTML code nicely using:
echo "<textarea>
{$content}
</texteare>";
(or echo "<textarea>\n\t{$content}\n</textarea>";),
the whitespace will be saved.

Try echo "<textarea>{$content}</textarea>";
And check the source indeed.

Grtz.
--
Rik Wasmus


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